Excommunication and outlawry in the legal world of medieval Iceland / by Elizabeth Walgenbach.
"In this book Elizabeth Walgenbach argues that outlawry in medieval Iceland was a punishment shaped by the conventions of excommunication as it developed in the medieval Church. Excommunication and outlawry resemble one another, often closely, in a range of Icelandic texts, including lawcodes a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021]
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| Series: | Northern world ;
v. 92. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Excommunication
- Outlawry
- Outlawry as secular excommunication
- Excommunication and outlawry in Sturla Þórðarson's Íslendinga saga
- Stories of Aron Hjǫrleifsson, outlaw and pilgrim
- Conclusion.